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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Speaking a second language is extremely important for reasons going well beyond college admissions.  You are doing your child a major disservice. [/quote]

I’ve never met anyone who became fluent after 4 years of high school language.

My kids went to immersion school when they were younger. That’s how you become fluent. But colleges didn’t care. They want to check the box. [/quote]

that is no not how you become fluent  :lol: [/quote]

NP.  Immersion is certainly one way that kids get on the path to fluency, but I do it requires more than just school.  My kid did immersion K-8. Then AP lang and Lit in high school. DS also tutored English language learners while in high school, and then taught adult English learners and did translation while spending time in a country that speaks his language during gap year.  Then tested in 4th semester language in college (highest they’d do for a non-heritage speaker), got an easy A in that  and has been taking classes and writing papers in the language ever since (usually as the only non-heritage speaker in his classes).  He’ll end with a double major, but he also really likes the content taught in the target language (literature, film, culture stuff).

Note that both parents speak the language fluently and spoke it to him at home maybe 30% of the time during elementary.  We also travelled extensively and socialized in the language all along. When he was a young kid, DS loved that the whole family switched languages when we travelled, and we met a ton of people that way.

YMMV. [/quote]

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